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Some cool displays I've seen over the past few months, none of these are mine (wish they were). Remember that bat remains should not be purchased ! Protect and respect the locals !!

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Nice Ram I found yesterday

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Found this ABSOLUTELY sick skull while I was out foraging. I think it might be a muntjac deer skull but I'm not certain at all - any thoughts appreciated! Found in Cambridgeshire, UK.

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I like how Romans talked about domestic spirits. They're kinda dead ancestors, kinda previous occupants, kinda local nature spirits, kinda the house itself. There's lots of different types but they all kinda blend and overlap into an amorphous class of spiritual fauna.

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Roe deer 🦌

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There's nothing that makes me happier than wading through creeks in the woods :')) I love the woods, specifically these ones just feel like home. I've been coming to them for years, picking up trash and leaving offerings for those who dwell here. It was really here where I fell in love with nature and magic, it's such a dear place to me. I found a turtle resting under the branches of a fallen tree, I believe it has passed but I'm waiting a few days to make sure. I haven't found any morels but loads of polypores which are still cool :)

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I really enjoy using fire, often by burning a sigil in a spirits devotional candle and asking them to help me with it. I also like using my own energy through putting my blood on it or drawing it on my body until it naturally fades, envisioning it glowing brighter and brighter and its intention coming to fruition. I feel like drawing it on myself "continously charges" it which seems to be a bit draining sometimes so I don't always do it. I do prefer sigils to be close to my person if they’re for protection or personal things directly affecting me. If not personal, like for protecting a certain area, I often use an ash based 'paint' charged by whatever plant I burnt for the ash and draw them on the walls/floor. For protection sigils, sometimes I'll slip them into my shoes or draw them on the soles of my shoes. Every step I take charges it with my energy and as I walk, the sigil slowly disintegrates while protecting my every step wherever I go :)

SIGIL MAGICIANS OF TUMBLR:

how do you prefer to charge up your sigils?

is it different if they're drawn directly on the body, whether yours or someone else's?

any amount of experience with sigils is enough. if you could share this post to get more eyes on it, that would be super helpful! thank you! 🙏🏽

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What I've been reading: nonfiction edition. I'm still digesting "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and I know it's a book I will return to again. There is a lot to savor here for a more peaceful and interconnected relationship with the world. I highly recommend it, especially this time of year when there is so much focus on buying and spending.

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On animism

One of my teachers at university told us something today, that I believe to be relevant to animism and therefore also witchcraft:

He explained that in the West we see everything as occurences, whereas in some languages the same happenings are described as actions. Meaning that in the West we tend to imply that there is no agency involved in whatever happens, while some other languages tend to imply that someone activily causes things. His example was that in the West rain is understood as something that just happens, no one causes the rain. Whereas in Mesoamerica it was believed that it rained because some god was crying.

While the idea of a literal crying god causing it to rain on earth might be outdated, I find it really interesting how these two perspectives - events vs. actions - might shape our relationship with the world. If rain is not just an occurence, but someone acting with agency, rain becomes another part of the community we live in. The community then doesn't only consist of humans anymore, but of everything that surrounds us. Suddenly there are all these new players that actively affect your life with their actions. Other-than-human persons that you can interact with and with whom you have to keep a friendly relationship. If the tree in front of your house isn't just an object, but a being with agency, you actually have to be at least respectful and might even want to build a relationship with them, get to know them, learn from them.

I think that's really the core of animism. Descriptions of animism are often reduced to the believe that everything has a soul, but I think believe doesn't even factor into it. You don't need to believe that there is a non-physical aspect to rain, mountains, stones. It's about how we interact with them. I don't even have to ask myself the question if the tree in front of my house has a soul in order to learn about and from them or to interact with them. In my opinion animism is something that is done, not thought or believed. It's a perspective.

Listening to my teacher also reminded me of the following part of Braiding Sweetgrass (great book btw) which explains all this really well:

A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When bay is a noun, it is defined by humans, trapped between its shores and contained by the word. But the verb wiikwegamaa - to be a bay - releases the water from bondage and lets it live. "To be a bay" holds the wonder that, for this moment, the living water has decided to shelter itself between these shores, conversing with cedar roots and a flock of baby mergansers. Because it could do otherwise become a stream or an ocean or a waterfall, and there are verbs for that, too. To be a hill, to be a sandy beach, to be a Saturday, all are possible verbs in a world where everything is alive. Water, land, and even a day, the language a mirror for seeing the animacy of the world, the life that pulses through all things, through pines and nuthatches and mushrooms. This is the lan- guage I hear in the woods; this is the language that lets us speak of what wells up all around us.

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This is the grammar of animacy. [...] In English, we never refer to a member of our family, or indeed to any person, as it. That would be a profound act of disrespect. It robs a person of selfhood and kinship, reducing a person to a mere thing. So it is that in Potawatomi and most other indigenous languages, we use the same words to address the living world as we use for our family. Because they are our family.

To whom does our language extend the grammar of animacy? Naturally, plants and animals are animate, but as I learn, I am discovering that the Potawatomi understanding of what it means to be animate diverges from the list of attributes of living beings we all learned in Biology 101. In Potawatomi 101, rocks are animate, as are mountains and water and fire and places. Beings that are imbued with spirit, our sacred medicines, our songs, drums, and even stories, are all animate. The list of the inanimate seems to be smaller, filled with objects that are made by people.

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The language reminds us, in every sentence, of our kinship with all of the animate world.

- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013), p. 78-80.

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new art offerings to king paimon i wanted to share to you all <3 this took a full like 7 hours of grinding but it came out so good , a lot was my own ideas but ofc paimon pushed some ideas , some we both agreed upon together ! one of those being the nose cuff and earring .

another thing that i believe i unlocked .. he is very passionate about my portrayal of him with a mustache , be really admired that idea and felt a rush of excitement ! thought i'd share that , idk . maybe more people will do so !

#King Paimon #art

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Get in loser, we're starting an oak cult.

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Oh to submerge myself in a marsh on a bed of moss !!

I've been working with the nature spirits of this land for around 6 years now. I've acquainted myself with the guardians of the land, the spirits of the trees, weeds, mosses, and fungi, the spirits of the ponds and lakes. I've just gotten to the point where I can easily identify the natural fauna here. So it feels a lil painful considering I'll have to move away within the next year or so !! On the one hand, I'm excited to learn about new things but on the other hand I really really will miss this place. The state I'm in has become increasingly hostile for people like me (queer+disabled) and it feels like I'm being forced out of my home, not even including the fact all my family dead and alive reside here. I've been told another "tower moment" is approaching and that I need to get comfortable with change no matter how hard, I can't help but feel I've slightly brought this upon myself through my recent endeavors with death work. It does seem that once you reach a certain point in these workings, you become waaaay more in tune with nature and experience a full 180° directional change in life. The (most likely) place I'm moving is pretty far away, it's going to feel so so odd not having ancestral ties and not knowing the spirits of the land. Has any other animist focused on regional spirits dealt with this before ? :"")

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You should go for it, never know until you try!! There's not nearly enough good Luciferian books out there, I'm sure it would be a positive contribution. This is definitely a goal of mine as well for one distant, distant day

My big dream is to write a book about Luciferianism in practice. There is really not enough good Luciferian literature, but I'm terrified my book would be awful.

#we need more practioners and less conspiracy theories writing books :“)

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So actually Vampire is an ancient Eastern European god, they worshipped him before monotheism happened. Yeah he’s my patron. I can talk to him and he’s actually vegan and can go out in the sun just fine. The centuries of folklore is all just propaganda. Look at this 5-paragraph blog post from 2006 and you’ll see what I mean.

#this is why its so hard to find fellow satanists #“before monotheism happened” screaming

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I'm curious about what the general public thinks about how specific spirit communication can be, and should be, so I'm making this poll:

Please, If you do multiple of the options below, please pick the one that you experience most often.

Also, If you don't expect any answer at all but you do pay attention to any of the options, just in case you do get some kind of message from Them, pick the option that would reflect what kind of communication you'd receive in that case.

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!!! Thank you.

#spirit work #poll

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The person who re-blogged this wants you to know that they are open to questions regarding their spiritual path, witchcraft and faith, and in fact, would love to talk about their spiritual path with you and have a casual talk!!

(this applies to me pspspsps HMU , don't hesitate, i am always open to respectful discussion of our spiritual paths and just being friends!!)